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From: brett@umd5.umd.edu (Brett Bourbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Oversea Demos
Message-ID: <5278@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 89 20:42:42 GMT
Reply-To: brett@umd5.umd.edu (Brett Bourbin)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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	With all this bandwith about pirating software and that the people
who are DOING the pirating can not program themselves, I started looking 
at the demos that I have been collecting from sources such as DELPHI and
other pay systems.  These demos all seem to have amazing graphics, including
waving images, rotating around different axes and custom copper lists to
create astonishing color displays.  Along with graphics, they have equally
impressive sound and music.  The amazing thing about these demos, is that
they are apparently written by the same who are pirating Amiga software.

	Now, after some disassembly of some of the demos, I can see that
they are hacks, since they include all the no-no's, ie. self-modifing code,
fixed memory locations for most of the code, non-multitasking, etc.  Even
with these faults, these demos ARE impressive and show that some of the
people who spend their time cracking other programs, could be writing
their own, or at least be assisting development teams in creating new
titles.  It would not really be a hard undertaking to make some of these
demos run legally under the Amiga enviorment, since some of the stuff seems
to be just to encrypt the code.

	disclaimer:  I, in no way, encourage and condone pirating in any
form, and feel those who do should be properly treated.

--Brett S Bourbin, Instructional Computing Programs -- Univ of Maryland
            Computer Science Center, College Park, MD 20742
       INTERNET: brett@umd5.umd.edu  BIX: brettb  DELPHI: brettb